Football guide: LA Galaxy vs Houston Dynamo - predictions and stats

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Mon 23.May
Match begins: 00:00 (UTC)
Venue: Dignity Health Sports Park (27000 seats)

It's looking good for LA Galaxy at this point, with their 4th position in the Major League Soccer table and welcoming Houston Dynamo (who are in 8th).

Insights:
  • LA Galaxy have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Major League Soccer
  • Houston Dynamo is in the worst form (1-1-4)

Houston Dynamo have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 2500 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for LA Galaxy and Houston Dynamo.

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LA Galaxy form and stats

When playing at home in the Major League Soccer, LA Galaxy have managed 3 wins, 0 draws and suffered 2 defeats from 5 games.

The home team returns to Dignity Health Sports Park after drawing with Minnesota United (placed 9th) on their last time out; the game ended 1-1. The Galaxy goalkeeper Bond was crucial in the match against Minnesota United last time out, making six saves.

Ahead of that match, LA Galaxy lost 1-3 at home to Dallas.

The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier LA Galaxy matches with similar probabilities have ended with 1 win, 1 draw and 2 defeats (from 4 games).

The match schedule is unforgiving for Galaxy as they have a new game in only three days, a US Open Cup match thankfully also at home. Los Angeles FC are visiting.

LA Galaxy has scored 5 goals so far and conceded 5 goals from 5 home games. These are numbers from the league only.

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Houston Dynamo form and stats

As the visiting team in Major League Soccer matches, Houston Dynamo have produced an overall stat of 1-0-3 so far. With two straight losses from their last two away games, Houston Dynamo are hoping that it's time for some travel points again.

This match can not go any worse than the last one, the home defeat versus Seattle Sounders with 0-1 on the scoreboard. Attacker Quintero got a player rating of 7.64 in the game. "Man of the match" Quintero hit five key passes and had 23 successful passes (of 28 total).

Before that, Houston Dynamo secured a home win against Nashville SC with the score 2-0.

As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Houston Dynamo playing away, we found 5 games. Results were 0 away wins, 0 draws and 5 home wins.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Houston manager Nagamura as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Sporting KC.

Houston Dynamo's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 6 goals from these trips.

Head 2 Head

LA Galaxy-Houston Dynamo H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: LA Galaxy two wins, Houston Dynamo three wins, five draws. seven of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

GalaxyJ. Hernández Balcázar
J. Hernández Balcázar
5 goals
Houston DynamoC. Quintero Villalba
C. Quintero Villalba
5 goals
Houston DynamoC. Ferreira Vidal
C. Ferreira Vidal
4 goals

LA Galaxy missing players

Houston Dynamo missing players

LA Galaxy Houston Dynamo
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
12 5 1 Played P 1 4 12
6 3 1 Won W 0 1 4
2 0 0 Drew D 0 0 3
4 2 0 Lost L 1 3 5
13 5 1 Scored S 1 4 14
11 5 0 Conceded C 2 6 14
92% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 83%
42% 40% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 75% 67%
33% 40% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 50% 42%
25% 20% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 25% 17%
8% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 8%
42% 40% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 50% 50%
42% 40% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 25%
25% 20% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 50% 42%
 
6.2 7 5 Corners for (avg) C F 3 2.2 3.8
3.8 3.6 2 Corners against (avg) C A 8 7 6.9
2.4 2.4 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 3.2 2.8
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 3
 
13.6 14.6 17 Shots (avg) S ( 8 8 10.4
3.9 3.6 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 2.8 3.4
28% 28% 20% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 36% 34%
 
10.3 9.6 4 Shots against (avg) S A 13 16 13.3
3.3 3.6 1 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 7 5.8 4.2
Key stats in Major League Soccer this season:
  • Houston Dynamo have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Houston Dynamo have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Houston Dynamo have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Houston Dynamo have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Houston Dynamo haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Houston Dynamo is in the worst form (1-1-4)
  • LA Galaxy have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • LA Galaxy have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Major League Soccer
  • LA Galaxy have the the worst goal difference (0) at home in Major League Soccer
  • LA Galaxy haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Austin 12 7 2 3 25 12 6 4 1 1 15 3 6 3 1 2 10 9 13 23
2 Los Angeles FC 12 7 2 3 24 14 7 4 2 1 15 7 5 3 0 2 9 7 10 23
3 Dallas 12 6 4 2 20 10 6 5 1 0 14 4 6 1 3 2 6 6 10 22
4 LA Galaxy 12 6 2 4 13 11 5 3 0 2 5 5 7 3 2 2 8 6 2 20
5 Real Salt Lake 12 5 4 3 12 16 5 4 1 0 8 4 7 1 3 3 4 12 -4 19
6 Nashville SC 12 5 3 4 13 13 3 2 1 0 5 2 9 3 2 4 8 11 0 18
7 Colorado Rapids 12 4 3 5 14 14 6 4 2 0 10 1 6 0 1 5 4 13 0 15
8 Houston Dynamo 12 4 3 5 14 14 8 3 3 2 10 8 4 1 0 3 4 6 0 15
9 Minnesota United 12 4 3 5 13 13 7 3 2 2 10 6 5 1 1 3 3 7 0 15
10 Portland Timbers 13 3 6 4 20 21 6 2 3 1 12 8 7 1 3 3 8 13 -1 15
11 Seattle Sounders 10 4 1 5 13 14 4 2 0 2 6 5 6 2 1 3 7 9 -1 13
12 SJ Earthquakes 12 3 4 5 22 28 7 3 3 1 16 15 5 0 1 4 6 13 -6 13
13 Sporting KC 13 3 3 7 12 24 6 3 2 1 7 5 7 0 1 6 5 19 -12 12
14 Vancouver Whitecaps 11 3 2 6 12 21 6 3 2 1 9 7 5 0 0 5 3 14 -9 11

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Major League Soccer (often known simply as MLS) is the top level of football (soccer) in the United States and Canada. MLS has 24 teams divided into two conferences, Eastern and Western. Each team play 34 fixtures to decide a league table champion. The top fourteen teams then compete in playoff to crown a MLS Cup champion.